This blog is all about how I how used humor to remain sane while dealing with the insanity of a brain tumor the size of my wife’s fist. Why blog? To help other folks cope with serious health issues/brain tumors/cancer and give anybody wading through the muck of rehabilitation some hope or at least a chuckle or two. It will include a vaguely chronological story, books reviews, presentations to rehab patients, etc.

For me, this goes back to Barbara
Strauch and her well-researched book entitled “The Secret Life of the GROWN-UP
Brain” in which she points out that “For years, scientists believed diet had
little impact on our brains because they thought most nutrients didn’t cross
the blood-brain barrier.”

The same is true for
medications that would whack brain cancers, they have a hard time permeating
the blood-brain-barrier.

That’s where the Capital
Institute’s idea becomes interesting, according to the press release, “During
the procedure, done at Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell, Dr. Erol
Veznedaroglu, an endovascular neurosurgeon, threaded a tiny catheter through
the patient’s femoral artery in the leg, up through the body and neck and into
the brain. Once the catheter reached the brain, chemotherapy was released to
the blood vessels that feed the tumor. The drugs were carried by the natural
blood flow of the vessels to infuse the tumor with the cancer-fighting agent.”